[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/4] virtio: check if any kernel driver is manipulating the virtio device

[Ferruh Yigit]

On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 05:56:49PM +0000, Xie, Huawei wrote:
> On 1/5/2016 1:24 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Mon,  4 Jan 2016 01:56:13 +0800
> > Huawei Xie <huawei.xie at intel.com> wrote:
> >
> >> +	if (pci_dev->kdrv != RTE_KDRV_NONE) {
> >> +		PMD_INIT_LOG(INFO,
> >> +			"kernel driver is manipulating this device." \
> >> +			" Please unbind the kernel driver.");
> > Splitting strings in general is a bad idea since it makes it harder to find log messages.
> > Also the first clause is lower case and the second is captialized.
> Got it. This is to avoid 80 char warning. Will put it in one line to
> make it friendly for searching.
> The first clause is lower is because it actually follows "%s():".

Indeed checkpatch lets logging functions be longer than 80 chars, so does not forces to split message.
But checkpatch detects kernel logging functions only, not ours, that is why we are still getting over 80 chars warning.

Should we ignore LONG_LINE_STRING warnings in checkpatch?

Thanks,
ferruh